Birth Date: August 15, 1967
Birth Place: Silver Spring, Maryland

2012 SEASON: ranked sixth in the local standings with 31 victories…Eighttofasttocatch won the Harrison Johnson Stakes and Jennings Handicap for the second straight year.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: set career-highs in both wins (43) and earnings ($975,000) in 2011… Eighttofasttocatch won four stakes races at Laurel Park that year, including the Maryland Million Classic, while Red’s Round Table won the Wide Country Stakes and Marshua Stakes …Celtic Innis won a pair of added money races in 2005 and 2006 and won the Maryland Million Sprint in 2008…The son of Yarrow Brae was nine-for-38 with 27 in the money finishes at the 6-furlong distance and ended his seven-year career in 2010 with $648,638 in earnings…saddled Anarex to the 1994 Maryland Million Distaff Starter title…first win with Via Hawaii in June 1994 at Laurel Park.

PERSONAL: was steeplechase jockey before getting his trainer’s license…credits Joe Aitcheson for getting him interested in the business.